Drylands (novel)
{{Short description|1999 novel by Thea Astley}}
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{{infobox book |
| name = Drylands
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| image = Drylands_book_cover.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Thea Astley
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| country = Australia
| language = English
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| publisher = Penguin Books, Australia
| release_date = 1999
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| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
| pages = 293
| isbn = 0-670-88619-X
| dewey = 823/.914 21
| congress = PR9619.3.A75 D79 1999
| oclc = 42402469
| preceded_by = The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
| followed_by = -
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Drylands (1999){{cite web|title= Austlit - Drylands by Thea Astley |publisher= Austlit|url= https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C183209|accessdate= 12 July 2023}} (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with Benang by Kim Scott.
Awards
Review
- {{citation |work=Australian Book Review |title=Undimmed Outrage, Fiction review |last=Goldsworthy |first=Kerryn |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/Sept99/kg.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122808/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/Sept99/kg.html |archive-date=2007-09-29 |date=September 1999
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- Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin-de-siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding."{{cite web |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/1999/340-september-1999-no-214/5721-kerryn-goldsworthy-reviews-drylands-by-thea-astley |title=Drylands by Thea Astley |first=Kerryn |last=Goldsworthy |work=Australian Book Review |date=September 1999 |access-date=April 25, 2022}}
Notes
For a description of "drylands" see biomes.
References
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See also
- 1999 in Australian literature
- [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/astleyt/drylands.html Middlemiss.org]
{{Thea Astley}}
{{Miles Franklin Award}}
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Category:1999 Australian novels
Category:Miles Franklin Award–winning works
Category:Novels by Thea Astley
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